Improved washing machine



A@uitrit gratta @anni @fitta` WILLIAM A. TERRY, 0F PRAIRIED CHIEN, WISCONSIN. Lam Parma No. 63,579, time Apr-a 2, 1867.

IMPROVED WASHING' MACHINE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. TERRY, of Prairie du Chien, in the county of Crawford, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful improvement in Washing Machine; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereoi`,lwhich will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of my improved washing machine, partly in section through the line a: x, fig.

Figure 2 is a. side view of the same, partly in section through the line y y, g. I.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the same, taken through the line z z, fig. l.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view of the same, taken through the line x m', g. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the lever, gear-wheel, pinion-wheel, and rubber-shaft, with each other, with the supporting standard, and with the hinged part of the cover, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the tub, which is made in the usual form; B is the lower and C is the upper or movable rubber. The rubber B is formed upon or attached to the bottom, a, of' the tub, and consists of corrugated or ribbed segments, I1', so arranged that their corrugations or ridges may correspond in position to the cutting edges of an ordinary millstone. The corrugated or ribbed segments, c1, of the upper rubber, C, are securely attached to or formed upon the lower surface of a circular disk, c2, as shown in g. 1. The segments of the two rubbers are arranged in a reverse order, so that the corrugations or ridges may always cross eachother in whatever position the said rubbers may be. lo the rubber C is securely attached the lower end of the vertical shaft D, which passes up through a hole in the hinged part of the cover E, and its upper end revolves in bearings in the upper part of the standard or supporting frame F. The lower part of the body of the shaft D is made with longitudinal ianges, or in the shape shown in figs. 2 and 4. This part of the shaft D passes through and works in a similarly shaped hole in the pinion-wheel Gr, so that the said shaft may be free to move longitudinally through said pinion, but-will always be carried with the said pinion in its revolution. The pinion-wheel G revolves in and is kept in proper relative position by a collar, H, attached to the hinged part of the cover E, as shown in figs.

- l and 2. I is a gear-wheel, one journal of which revolves in bearings formed in the support or arm d', attached to the hinged part of the cover E. The other journal of said wheel revolves in bearings formed in a cross-bar of the supporting standard F, as shown in iig. 2. The rubber C is vibrated or revolved, first in one direction and then in the other, by means of the lever K, attached to the gear-wheel I. The lever K may be removably attached to the gear-wheel I by passing it through a keeper attached to the side of the said wheel, and letting its end rest in a socket formed in its hub. By this construction the lever, when not in use, can be removed so as to bc out of the way.

What I c laim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is- The combination and .arrangement of the lever K, gear-Wheel I, pinion-wheel G, and vertical rubber-shaft D, with each other, with the supporting standard or frame F, and with the hinged part of the cover E, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM A. TERRY. Witnesses:

SAML. W. BA'rcnnLDER, N. A. WRIGHT. 

